Sand Daughter

by Sarah Bryant

Genres: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

?An epic filled with emotion and rich with atmosphere? ( Historical Novel Society) from the author of The Other Eden.

Khalidah faces an arranged marriage at the behest of her father, a Bedouin Clan chief. But when a mysterious stranger named Sulayman reveals the machinations behind her pending union, she suddenly finds herself a pawn in a deadly plot involving her own feuding tribe and the powerful Templar Knights.

Faced with certain death, Khalidah runs away with Sulayman, a man she barely knows. Their journey, and the desire that grows between them, will thrust Khalidah toward unimaginable adventure, and the echoes of a past that somehow connect her to the Jinn?the mysterious Afghan warriors who may hold the key to the coming battle for the Holy Land.

Release date: October 6, 2009

Publisher: Berkley

Print pages: 496